Hi Eric,
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/http://www.w3.org/2001/Talks/0505-perl-RDF-lib/http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/perl/modules/W3C/Rdf/Algae.pm?rev=1.41&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
I've been looking at W3c::RDF::Algae.pm with an eye to dropping in
alternate backend database implementations, like we discussed recently.
I've also got a wrapper for the Squish RDF query language that I'll
contrib when I've got some tests implemented to be sure it works properly.
Anyway, a suggestion: It seems the way Algae.pm currently works, one needs
a class that implements W3C::RDF::RdfDB that can be constructed afresh by
the query engine, ie. the method W3C::RDF::Algae::checkForDBSpec() wants
to be passed a class name plus a bunch of initialisation parameters,
which'll allow it to create a new instance of some species of RDF database.
Suggestion:
Often one's application code will *already* have its hands on a reference
to such a database object, so it'd be nice if this could just be passed
to the query engine instead.
Currently you do: eval "require $dbSpec; \$\$pDb = new $dbSpec(\$parms);";
...could you hack it to take a Perl reference instead? Would this break
anything else? That way I can create RDF database instances and initialise
them without having to have Algae do that work...
cheers,
--danbri